How To: Get your Child to Do Their Homework

1. Create a kid-friendly study environment. Music often aids study.

2. Go over the work together with your child. Don’t just say ‘Do your homework’.

3. Break it down into smaller chunks of work. If there is a lot - make a goal chart for completion.

4. Familiarise yourself with the content, and re-create it in your child’s specific learning style, which gets the point across, ie: Soccer math.

5. Create a practical hands-on real life example of the exercise. Dramatise the maths problem; Act out the scene in the story-line of the paragraph or sentence.

6. Re-phrase difficult terminologies into simpler concepts or wording, ie: Odds vs Probabilities; or as a friend put it once: ‘Peas in chicken soup’.

7. Offer a privilege of some sort on completion.



Copyright 2006. Rebecca Laklem.